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Pickney's Treaty, George Washington
established intentions of friendship between the United States and Spain -
XYZ Affair, John Adams
a confrontation between the United States and Republican France that led to an undeclared war called the Quasi-War. -
War of 1812 James Madison
A military conflict between the United States of America against the United Kingdom. -
Adams-Onis Treaty, James Monroe
that ceded Florida to the U.S. and defined the boundary between the U.S. and New Spain -
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, James K. Polk
officially entitled the Treaty of Peace, Friendship, Limits and Settlement between the United States of America and the Mexican Republic -
Gadsden Purchase, Franklin Pierce
Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that was purchased by the United States in a treaty signed on December 30, 1853 by James Gadsden -
Chinese Exclusion Act, Chester A. Arthur
prohibited all immigration of Chinese laborers. -
Hawaiian Annexation
United States annexes the islands of Hawaii -
Platt Amendment, Theodore Roosevelt
It stipulated seven conditions for the withdrawal of United States troops remaining in Cuba at the end of the Spanish–American War, and an eighth condition that Cuba sign a treaty accepting these seven conditions. -
Zimmerman Telegram, Woodrow Wilson
Telegram intercepted from Germany to Mexico asking the Mexicans to help the Germans fight the Americans in the first world war -
Washington Naval Conference, Warren G. Harding
Conducted outside the auspice of the League of Nations -
Smoot-Hawley Tariff, Herbert Hoover
raised U.S. tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods to record levels. -
Atlantic Chater, Franklin D. Roosevelt
defined the Allied goals for the post-war world -
Potsdam Conference, Harry Truman
negotiate terms for the end of World War II. -
New Look Policy, Dwight D. Eisenhower
name given to the national security policy of the United States during the administration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower -
Hawaiian Annexation, Grover Cleveland
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Bay of Pigs Invasion, John F. Kennedy
A failed military invasion of Cuba by the CIA to overthrow Fidel Castro -
Tet Offensive, Lyndon B. Johnson
forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam against the forces of South Vietnam, the United States, and their allies -
Détente, Richard Nixon
a period roughly in the middle of the Cold War that was characterized by the signing of treaties such as SALT I and the Helsinki Accords. -
Moscow Olympics Boycott, Jimmy Carter
part of a number of actions initiated by the United States to protest the Soviet invasion in Afghanistan -
NAFTA, Bill Clinton
created a trilateral rules-based trade bloc in North America.
